Improvement in gauge for cutting bias pieces of cloth



S. T. TAYLOR.

Cutting Gage. No. 106,741. Patented Aug. 23, 1870.

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SAMUEL .T-v. TAYLOR,

0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

-Lfette'rs Patmt No.,106 ,741, (lated August 23, 187

IMPROVEMENT nflGAUGjll FOR. CUTTING BIAS PIECES .OI ('f'l'aO'l'H.,

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom 'it may concern:

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This invention has for its object the setting 'of a cord at `any angle to a. straight wand, in order that the cord may serve as' a guide for cutting bias pieces out of cloth. A

The invention consists in the combination of a straight wand, with sliding cross-pieces placed at right angles to the wand, in sockets at the ends of the same, and with a cord which connects those extremities of the cross-pieces that are on the same side of the wand, by which arrangement the cord may be set at any desired angle with the wand, on moving the cross-pieces to the required extent.

In the drawinga is the mainwand.

b b, the cross-pieces. i

c, -fig. 2, one of the metal sockets on the ends of the main wand', inwhich the cross-pieces slide.Y

ll, set-screws, which 'pass through the upper sides of the sockets.

' e, iig. 2, a brass plate vplaced between the set-screw and the cross-piece, for the screw to bear upon and to transmit the pressure of .the screw t0 the cross-piece.

f, the cord that connects the two ends of the cross*- pieces that are on thesame side ofthe wand, and serves as a guide in cutting. s

' This apparatus being laid straight across' a. strip of cloth, enables the operator, by sliding the gauge along the strip, to cut oli' any number of bias pieces, each of which shall be of uniform width throughout. Triangular pieces may also be cut with this instrument.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv

The combination ofthe main wand a, slidiugcrosspieces b b, and cord f, arranged as described.

SAMUEL T. TAYLOR.

Witnesses HIRAM OSTB'ANDER, GEO. W..*TAYL0R. 

